View source for Internet Systems Consortium

The [http://www.isc.org|Internet Systems Consortium (ISC)] is a non-profit corporation that supports "the infrastructure of the universal connected self-organizing Internet--and the autonomy of its participants--by developing and maintaining core production quality software, protocols, and operations."  One of the services that the ISC donates to [[Usenet]] is set of ftp archives in which the [[Checkgroups|official (canonical) list of Big-8 groups]] is maintained along with the control messages that created the groups.

In the control messages are the original charters (if any) of each newsgroup.

== The ISC Newsgroup Archives ==

{| {{Prettytable}}
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!Archived control messages from news.announce.newgroups 
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|[ftp://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/ ftp root directory for news.announce.newgroups] 
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|[ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/CONFIG/active ISC CONFIG list of active newsgroups] 
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|[ftp://ftp.isc.org/pub/usenet/control/ ISC archive of control messages] 
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|[[Checkgroups]]--the canonical list.
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|[ftp://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/Group_Lists ftp://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/Group_Lists] 
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!Archives of charters and RFDs for each hierarchy 
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|[ftp://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/comp comp.*] 
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|[ftp://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/humanities humanities.*] 
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|[ftp://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/misc misc.*] 
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|[ftp://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/news news.*] 
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|[ftp://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/rec rec.*] 
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|[ftp://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/sci sci.*] 
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|[ftp://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/soc soc.*] 
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|[ftp://ftp.isc.org/usenet/news.announce.newgroups/talk talk.*] 
|}